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SOD PHIPPS’S JOURNAL
had in the mean time moved fomething through the ice, and the ice itfelf had drifted fill
more to the weftward. At night there was little wind, and a thick fog, fo that I could
not judge precifely of the advantage we had gained ; but I {till feared that, however flat-
tering, it was not fuch as to juftify my giving up the idea of moving the boats, the feafon
advancing fo faft, the prefervation of the fhips being fo uncertain, and the fituation of
the people fo critical.
‘The ninth, a thick fog in the morning: we moved the fhip a little through fome
very {mall openings. In the afternoon, upon its clearing up, we were agreeably fur-
prifed to find the fhips had driven much more than we could have expected to the weit-
ward. We worked hard all day, and got them fomething more to the weftward through
the ice; but nothing in comparifon to what the ice itfelf had drifted. We got palt the
launches ; I fent a number of men for them, and got them on board. Between three
and four in the morning the wind was wefterly, and it {nowed faft. The people
having been much fatigued, we were obliged to defift from working for a few hours.
The progrefs which the fhips had made through the ice was, however, a very favour-
able event: the drift of the ice was an advantage that might be as fuddenly loft, as it
had been unexpectedly gained, by a change in the current: we had experienced the
inefficacy of an eafterly wind when far in the bay, and under the high land; but
having now got through fo much of the ice, we began again to conceive hopes that a
brifk gale from that quarter would foon effectually clear us.
The tenth, the wind {pringing up to the N. N. E. in the morning, we fet all the fail
we could upon the fhip, and forced her through a great deal of very heavy ice: fhe
ftruck often very hard, and with one ftroke broke the fhank of the beft bower anchor.
About noon we had got her through all the ice, and out to fea. I {tood to the N. W.
to make the ice, and found the main body juft where we left it. At three in the
morning, with a good breeze eafterly, we were ftanding to the weftward, between the
jand and the ice, both in fight, the weather hazy.
The eleventh, came to an anchor in the harbour of Smeerenberg, to refrefh the
people after their fatigues. » We found here four of the Dutch fhips, which we had
left in the Norways when we failed from Vogel Sang, and upon which I had depended
for carrying the people home in cafe we had been obliged to quit the fhips. In this
found there is good anchorage in thirteen fathom, fandy bottom, not far from the
fhore : it is well fheltered from all -winds. ‘The ifland clofe to which we lay is called
Amfterdam Ifland, the Wefternmoft point of which is Hackluyt’s Head Land: here
the Dutch ufed formerly to boil their whale-oil, and the remains of fome conveniencies
erected by them for that purpofe are {till vifible. Once they attempted to make an
e{tablifhment, and left fome people to winter here, who all perifhed. ‘The Dutch fhips
{till refort to this place for the latter feafon of the whale fifhery.
The twelfth, got the inftruments on fhore, and the tent pitched; but could not
make any obfervations this day or the next, from the badnefs of the weather.
The thirteenth, rain, and blowing hard: two of the Dutch fhips failed for Holland.
The fourteenth, the weather being fine and little wind, we began our obfervations.
The eighteenth, completed the obfervations. Calm all the day. During our ftay,
i again fet up the pendulum, but was not fo fortunate as before, never having been able
to get an oblervation of a revolution of the fun, or even equal altitudes for the time.
We had an opportunity of determining the refraction at midnight, which anfwered within
a few feconds to the calculation in Dr. Bradley’s table, allowing for the barometer and
thermometer. Being within fight of Cloven Cliff, I took a furvey of this part of Fair
ilaven, to connect it with the plan of the other part. Dr. Irving climbed up a moun-
5 tain,
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